Eat at Whitey's (2012)

On his latest, Eat at Whitey's, Everlast continues to leave behind his House of Pain past by piling on breakup song rhymes, strings, even an R&B ballad (''Love for Real''), like a bully eager to prove he has a heart. Toss in his nicely squalid folk rap and cameos by everyone from Santana (on the freeze-dried blues ''Babylon Feeling'') to Merry Clayton (of ''Gimme Shelter'' fame), and you have an eclectic, intermittently rewarding album of first rate re-creations. But re-creations are all they are, down to Everlast's voice, which is beginning to sound like Redd Foxx's. B